Stocks in the Spotlight Thursday

CVS Caremark fell. Monsanto, State Street and Akeena Solar rose.

Shares of the drugstore operator took sick after reporting disappointing sales growth for December. CVS fell 6.6% and was the most actively traded stock on the NYSE. The company blamed "adverse weather conditions early in the month, a slowly developing flu season and general economic conditions." Generics also hurt pharmacy sales, the company said. Thomas Weisel Partners analyst Steven Halper, however, kept his Overweight rating on CVS shares. "We are not too concerned with the slower top-line...